Show N t Club Patriot wasn't the only bero her heron benon on Bataan Baleen Peninsula as a this thin story Just arrived reveals reveal In the earl early days of the th campaign MacArthu MacArthur summoned I an engineer and asked How How long lone will it take to throw a abridge i bridge across this thi stream tream Three Thre days days day was wa the th reply Good snapped mapped MacArthur Have your draftsman make draw drawings drawings ings a right away Three days day later the General lent sen for the Ui engineer and asked him how boy boythe the bridge was wax coming It I a all ready was wax the answer an You can send lend your men across now if U you don t have to wait for to them picture They ain t done yeti yet Meow M w A catty actress visited th thi the Now Voyager set In H wood and ani an congratulated con Ilka Chase on her re- re recent recent re recent cent book I enjoyed it she said Who wrote it if Darling clawed Ilka I m SO et glad you liked it it Who read it ito 1 i to you lu In Moore U re a 8 the th other dinner time time Eddie Cantor Lou Holtz and Chia Chico Marx were wondering about Bet Ben Bernie Are things all right one of us queried Don t worry about Bernie said an eavesdropper I 1 happen to know that whether he works work or not he hi h hhas has an Income of 22 a year is s that the enough the way he hebets hi h bets beta bet asked Chico Those who 11 II suffer uffer gagged a awag i wag will be his relatives relative From Variety Only three pictures pic plc tures have played live ve week engage engagements engagements ments ment at the Music Hall before Reap the Wild Wind They were Snow White Rebecca Phila Story and Woman of the Year Isn t show business bad enough without arithmetic like that Harry Hopkins is supposed to tt have asked a Soviet shot big How Hov Hovis is it you purged so many Generals Generals- General yet you re doing so BO well In Russia was wa the answer we executed the Fifth Firth Columnists In Jr France they put them in the Cab Cabinet Cabnet CabInet inet net And over here they get on the llie stall of the hate sheets John J ka Gunther the commentator war correspondent was interview interviewing interviewIng tog ing the head of a gov t bureau who woe was complaining about th the confusion sion ion red tape etc What do you really think of of Washington Gunther asked I think he said it le is 1 an insane asylum Oh come now Gunther ribbed that s 8 a time worn phrase You don t t understand said laid the theman theman theman man This is the most different kind of an insane asylum It is run by bythe bythe bythe the inmates America Americ a s a Assembly Line Liae America s assembly line lui is ii rom corn It runs straight from the greatheart greatheart great heart of a free people to the hearts of their fea fearless fighters The money streaming into our war bonds is already rung out of the mouth of the cannon The cannon The capitals f t the er ei emy are pan panicky panicky panIcky icky i D liar t f r wheel dollar dollar wheel for wheel ind tar tai k for the tank tank the en enen enen err en y is 1 1 I sing It 1 tie e a ba battle tOe of the fac fact tc r es Wl WI Wilch ich n If eai eal s that man for forn forn forn n in the llie u i en on y must give final ac acc c cut u t h s wn ba ld lie He kr ki ws that m ie Ae I e goes into a adder adt direr se st t uni imi tl u an the 25 eel cei ts is It costs And tI tl at our men with their hammers are ig sag hon e a more moreth moreth th II 11 rivets ts 1 Ilie I he n If ney pour ng into the U ted led td States les treasury 1 red ury n sans eans i America is have no price on theIr liberty B U for defense means tanks nga IIga t t st tyrants and bullets I for bullies Aner A Tier ner can working n IT en are too bu busy y to look up but the smoking chimneys chimney of their factories mean the smoking ruins of Berlin and Tokyo The American armament pro pro- program program program gram which Includes 1 5 tight fight fighting fighting ing planes was called fantastic by Hitler in a radio speech This Thi Is to report that our plane productiOn boo tiOn will be even grea greater ter than Hitler fears Midtown Melodrama Mel The cot col yum s a spy over at B Altman I de de- department de- de department department store tore overheard this di dialogue the other afternoon I ady Please Patron Patron Please charge It It Salesgirl What Is i the name please Lady Lilllan Lady Ullian Gish Would Salesgirl Salesgirl Would you please spell It It 1 In Fewer Words W Vaudeville la lade 1 de definitely y making a comeback The showmen obviously figured If If it s so o successful in Congress It t be b a cinch for tor New Vi w York Heartbeat The Big BIC Parade Detective J Broderick famed tamed for tor his hi courage against gangsters gangster friGhtened stitch ever ver appearing In a film tUrn depicting his tia career Spurned an offer of from to stay day tay on the tb police pollee tolice force at 80 BO per week het Chet Shaw new managing ed over at it Newsweek The Purple Heart ribbon in his means lapel lapel means that he was vas wounded in the th last war rivets Private Carl ile Jr who hi lit bis week end at al a swanky th tb Avenue on hotel hotel on 21 a s month |